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features as soft as those of an European: Whereas the people of the Esquimaux nations, are by the accounts of all travellers, the ugliest men, of the harshest and most disagreable feature, and all covered with hair. She is certainly not mistaken in the situation of the country which she gives, for it is doubtless a very cold country; and the people whom she describes as living in the neighbourhood of her nation, can be no other than the Esquimaux: and when we add to this, what travellers tell us of a certain race of people, who are fair, of smooth skins and lost features, living in the country of Labrador, upon the east side of Hudson's bay, in the neighbourhood of the Esquimaux; we can hardly doubt but that Madamoiselle le Blanc is one of that race of people and that her native country is the coast of Hudson’s bay, considerably to the northward of Nova Scotia, the principal settlement of the British in North America.
THE 19th day of June, in the year 1762, was baptized by me, after
